21.3614, Qs: Resource Search: 'hay' Constructions in Spanish

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Subject: 21.3614, Qs: Resource Search: 'hay' Constructions in Spanish

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Date: 09-Sep-2010
From: Javier Perez < jperez at uvigo.es >
Subject: Resource Search: 'hay' Constructions in Spanish
 

	
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:20:07
From: Javier Perez [jperez at uvigo.es]
Subject: Resource Search: 'hay' Constructions in Spanish

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Dear LINGUIST List members,

In order to undertake a contrastive analysis of "hay" and "there" 
sentences in Spanish and English, I would be grateful if you could send 
me references containing functional and formal analyses of 
presentational "hay" constructions in Spanish ("Hay tres estudiantes 
esperando por el profesor en el pasillo"). I am interested in issues such 
as: the syntactic structure of the construction, its informative 
organisation (in terms of old vs given information), processing 
(distribution of constituents along the sentence), etc.

So far I have focused on:
Suñer, Margarita (1982) "Syntax and Semantics of Spanish 
Presentational Sentence Types". Washington, DC: Georgetown 
University.

I am not aware of more recent stuff.

Thanks in advance,

Javier Perez-Guerra
University of Vigo, Spain
jperez at uvigo.es 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)




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